California cuisine legend Jeremiah Tower is no longer the chef at New York City institution Tavern on the Green, bringing an end to the high-profile partnership that had the Big Apple abuzz for much of early 2015.

Tower, whose bygone San Francisco restaurant Stars remains one of the most influential restaurants in our city’s long food history, took over the kitchen at the then-struggling Tavern on the Green in November 2014. The Chronicle’s Michael Bauer shared his thoughts on the new menu here; New York critics did notreceive it well.

This morning, Tower tweeted out news of his departure from the restaurant:

I am no longer at Tavern on the Green.
The Tavern kitchen team and I have accomplished what we set out to do

The chef tells Scoop that his immediate future involves a 10-day trip on Rocio del Mar to the Revillagigedos Islands and diving with sharks (“fish ones, this time,” he points out). He is also planning to finish work with Zero Point Production, the Anthony Bourdain-led production company that is filming a documentary about him.

Meanwhile, the chef from Russ & Daughters Cafe, John Stevenson, will step into the Tavern on the Green role, per the Times.